Parallel data processing apparatus

Claim 1

A SPATIALLY ORIENTED DIGITAL DATA INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF INFORMATION SOURCES ARRANGED IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL RECTANGULAR MATRIX ARRAY, A PLURALITY OF MODULAR CIRCUITS ARRANGED IN ONE-TOONE CORRESPONDENCE WITH SAID SOURCES IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL RECTANGULAR MATRIX ARRAY IDENTICAL IN CONFIGURATION TO THAT OF SAID INFORMATION SOURCES, MEANS RESPECTIVELY INTERCONNECTING SAID INFORMATION SOURCES AND THE CORRESPONDINGLY-POSITIONED MODULAR CIRCUITS, EACH OF SAID MODULAR CIRCUITS INCLUDING INTERCONNECTED LOGIC CIRCUIT MEANS AND MEANS FOR STORING A PLURALITY OF DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNALS, SAID STORING MEANS INCLUDING AN ACCUMULAR REGISTER, DIRECT ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS RESPECTIVELY INTERCONNECTING EACH MODULAR CIRCUIT TO THE MODULAR CIRCUITS WHICH ARE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THERETO IN THE HORIZONTAL DIRECTION AND ALSO TO THOSE WHICH ARE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THERETO IN THE VERTICAL DIRECTION, LINK CIRCUIT MEANS DIRECTLY INTERCONNECTING ADJACENT ONES OF SAID MODULAR CIRCUITS, SAID LINK CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING MEANS INCLUDING SAID MEANS AND STORAGE MEANS, CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING SAID LOGIC MEANS INTERCONNECTING SAID STROGAGE MEANS AND THE ACCUMULATOR REGISTERS OF THE MODULAR CIRCUITS CONNECTED TO SAID LINK CIRCUITS MEANS, AND CENTRAL CONTROL MEANS COUPLED TO THE LOGIC MEANS OF SAID LINK CIRCUIT MEANS AND DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE LOGIC CIRCUIT MEANS OF EVERY ONE OF SAID MODULAR CIRCUITS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLYING TO SAID LOGIC CIRCUIT MEANS IDENTICAL CONTROL SIGNALS.